The markup of my former CS class:
4 Incredibly hot women
2 okay looking women
1 Ugly as hell woman
10 not bad looking men
7 average looking men
1 350 pound guy
1 pimple faced and generally ugly guy
of course I only noticed the four hot women and one of the okay looking women, because I was in the same group as three of the hot women and the okay looking woman. And as one of the women said, when they decided to have a little fun with me, and REALLY snuggle up close - I'm definately heterosexual.
"The Sixth Seal is a graphic novel drawn for mature readers. It contains strong language, full frontal nudity and other possibly distressing material."
No doubt about it - you are a geek; no other kind of people I know of would use the above phrase as not only a warning but also as a teaser and commercial. Nice job!:-)
Uhm... where do you have that camera installed? I'd like to know, because obviously you've been spying on me, since you know that I do in fact wear white socks, brown shoes, a green turtleneck and thick horn rimmed glasses to work, and that I also find Userfriendly to be funny (most of the time).
You'd think this kind of thinking would be more widespread - I mean, various animals have been doing stuff we attempt to copy for hundreds of thousands of years, but instead of copying from them, we try to reinvent the wheel (probably with four corners, so it'll store neatly in containers) time and time again.
It's not like the animal kingdom has lawyers that'll take inventors to court for infringement.
"Like the CSS decryption software, DeCSS is a writing composed of computer source code which describes an alternative method of decrypting CSS encrypted DVDs. Regardless of who authored the program, DeCSS is a written expression of the author's ideas and information about decryption of DVDs without CSS. If the source code were "compiled" to create object code, we would agree that the resulting composition of zeroes and ones would not convey ideas. (See generally Junger v. Daley, supra, 209 F.3d at pp. 482483.) That the source code is capable of such compilation, however, does not destroy the expressive nature of the source code itself. Thus, we conclude that the trial court's preliminary injunction barring Bunner from disclosing DeCSS can fairly be characterized as a prohibition of "pure" speech. "
Conclusion:
Code == Free Speech
Compiled Code != Free Speech
So what else is new? Other than this fact is now recognized by the court?
What is the stupidest question you have ever been asked about life, the universe and everything? If that's too dificult to answer, then narrow the field down to... say... I don't know... what about encryption?
No wait - everybody else is asking you questions about encryption. Sex! What's the stupidest question you have ever been asked about sex?
That's it. Sex. The reason we're all alive. Well... some of us don't have a life, but we're still technically alive.
"The turbo needs to reach 10,000 rps to start working"
This isn't too practicle... needs to be moving very fast to start working.
Adding a scramjet to an existing setup (or something like that) allows you to cut back on traditional thrust, which in turn means you can cut back substatially on liftoff weight, which means it becomes less expensive to send up stuff.
Hmm... for a supporter of Open Source (and probably free choice) you sure are adament that we should stick to either Unix or Windows. What happened to freedom of choice? Oh... that doesn't apply with regards to OS's... I see.
Here's why:
1) They work for a government agency, so the law doesn't apply for them
2) Noone knows what the NSA does, so they aren't breaking the law as far as anyone knows.
3) If you decide to press charges against the NSA for trafficking a circumvention device, you will conviniently dissapear from the face of the earth.
4) If a company decides to press charges against the NSA for trafficking a circumvention device, all of their money mysteriously dissapears from all their bank accounts, they offices will be raided, because they might be spying for other countries and by some freak accident, one of the B2 bomers gets the wrong coordinates for a bombing run.
He's gonna be thrown in jail for cracking the security, thereby jeopardizing national security not to mention corporate interest.
Then their gonna bomb arizona back to the stoneage, because they think he might be attending college there, and dropping humanitarian aid at the same time.
How many people think, that the guy will even get a fair treatment by the "normal" press if he's thrown in jail and ends up in a high publicity court case?
Come on - admit it. For a "newbie" aqua is a pretty cool look and feel. Try convincing the office secretaries that they should be using linux/FreeBSD by showing them gnome or kde and then try convincing them showing them Aqua (if it could be run on linux/bsd.
Even I'd rather run Aqua than gnome/kde. Why? Because it's more purdy and is probably better with regards to ease of use (and shove your "cli rules" where the sun don't shine, and learn to use the right tool for the right job; if this can't be achieved, try putting your computer together using only a sledgehammer next time around).
Hell - if it worked properly I'd probably even pay for it.
Who's bragging? I was explaining why I was acting stupid earlier. I didn't know there was a problem, and when I found out, I changed my stance. How were you expecting me to behave? Like a politician?
Slashdot Mirror
Have a look at this:
h ol d=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=2531998#2532021
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23464&thres
"The United States of America is 9,372,143 km^2
Alaska is 1,518,800 km^2
Texas is 692,405 km^2
Arizona is 295,024 km^2
[...]"
Australia is counted as a continent and not an island. If you count australia as an island, why not antarctica or north or south america?
The United States of America is 9,372,143 km^2
Alaska is 1,518,800 km^2
Texas is 692,405 km^2
Arizona is 295,024 km^2
The Atlantic Ocean is 82,362,000 km^2
Europe is 10,360,000 km^2
Denmark (my home country) is a measly 43,069 km^2
Great Britain is 244,044 km^2
Germany is 356,733 km^2
France is 547,026 km^2
The Pacific Ocean is 181,300,000 km^2
Australia is 7,686,810 km^2
Greenland (the largest island in the world) is 2,175,600 km^2
Does that help?
144 Petabytes doesn't sound like a lot. When putting it into writing:
144,000,000,000,000,000 or 144*10^15
it's impossible to comprehend.
Here's a way to visualise it - although it's also mindboggeling:
Take a sheet of paper with the squares on it. If you put a single byte in each 5mm by 5mm (1/5" by 1/5") square and use both sides, you'd need:
3,600,000 km^2 of paper to have room for those 144 PB. That's roughly 1,325,525 square miles for you people who don't use the metric system.
So when people say "it doesn't sound like a lot", you know how to get them to understand that it really IS a lot.
The markup of my former CS class:
4 Incredibly hot women
2 okay looking women
1 Ugly as hell woman
10 not bad looking men
7 average looking men
1 350 pound guy
1 pimple faced and generally ugly guy
of course I only noticed the four hot women and one of the okay looking women, because I was in the same group as three of the hot women and the okay looking woman. And as one of the women said, when they decided to have a little fun with me, and REALLY snuggle up close - I'm definately heterosexual.
"Catastrophe in Wyoming"
I'm no expert on the USA, but wouldn't it be more like
"Joyous event in Wyoming"
???
Maybe the scientists are using a pluto-year as a guage? one pluto-year equals roughly 277 earth-years.
"The Sixth Seal is a graphic novel drawn for mature readers. It contains strong language, full frontal nudity and other possibly distressing material."
:-)
No doubt about it - you are a geek; no other kind of people I know of would use the above phrase as not only a warning but also as a teaser and commercial. Nice job!
Uhm ... where do you have that camera installed? I'd like to know, because obviously you've been spying on me, since you know that I do in fact wear white socks, brown shoes, a green turtleneck and thick horn rimmed glasses to work, and that I also find Userfriendly to be funny (most of the time).
Yup ... which brings the following to mind:
...
I'm not sure how a Beowolf cluster works, but I'm quite sure, I'd like to see a Beowolf cluster of Natalie Portmans
You'd think this kind of thinking would be more widespread - I mean, various animals have been doing stuff we attempt to copy for hundreds of thousands of years, but instead of copying from them, we try to reinvent the wheel (probably with four corners, so it'll store neatly in containers) time and time again.
It's not like the animal kingdom has lawyers that'll take inventors to court for infringement.
Good - another job well done.
good - a job well done.
"Like the CSS decryption software, DeCSS is a writing composed of computer source code which describes an alternative method of decrypting CSS encrypted DVDs. Regardless of who authored the program, DeCSS is a written expression of the author's ideas and information about decryption of DVDs without CSS. If the source code were "compiled" to create object code, we would agree that the resulting composition of zeroes and ones would not convey ideas. (See generally Junger v. Daley, supra, 209 F.3d at pp. 482483.) That the source code is capable of such compilation, however, does not destroy the expressive nature of the source code itself. Thus, we conclude that the trial court's preliminary injunction barring Bunner from disclosing DeCSS can fairly be characterized as a prohibition of "pure" speech. "
Conclusion:
Code == Free Speech
Compiled Code != Free Speech
So what else is new? Other than this fact is now recognized by the court?
What is the stupidest question you have ever been asked about life, the universe and everything? If that's too dificult to answer, then narrow the field down to ... say ... I don't know ... what about encryption?
... some of us don't have a life, but we're still technically alive.
No wait - everybody else is asking you questions about encryption. Sex! What's the stupidest question you have ever been asked about sex?
That's it. Sex. The reason we're all alive. Well
"The turbo needs to reach 10,000 rps to start working"
... needs to be moving very fast to start working.
This isn't too practicle
Adding a scramjet to an existing setup (or something like that) allows you to cut back on traditional thrust, which in turn means you can cut back substatially on liftoff weight, which means it becomes less expensive to send up stuff.
You're right - it's not "practile" [sic].
Doesn't work like that. Communicator 4.77 isn't blocked, and my Opera 5.12+Webwasher can't open the site ...
"I have a sub 10 second boot from pushing the power button."
How the hell do you do that? My computer is stuck some 25 or 30 seconds in the POST etc before even considdering booting anything.
Somebody get me my rifle - I need to put down ol' yellar'
Hmm ... for a supporter of Open Source (and probably free choice) you sure are adament that we should stick to either Unix or Windows. What happened to freedom of choice? Oh ... that doesn't apply with regards to OS's ... I see.
Here's why:
1) They work for a government agency, so the law doesn't apply for them
2) Noone knows what the NSA does, so they aren't breaking the law as far as anyone knows.
3) If you decide to press charges against the NSA for trafficking a circumvention device, you will conviniently dissapear from the face of the earth.
4) If a company decides to press charges against the NSA for trafficking a circumvention device, all of their money mysteriously dissapears from all their bank accounts, they offices will be raided, because they might be spying for other countries and by some freak accident, one of the B2 bomers gets the wrong coordinates for a bombing run.
I don't think there are mine fields in arizona ... but maybe nuclear test areas?
He's gonna be thrown in jail for cracking the security, thereby jeopardizing national security not to mention corporate interest.
Then their gonna bomb arizona back to the stoneage, because they think he might be attending college there, and dropping humanitarian aid at the same time.
How many people think, that the guy will even get a fair treatment by the "normal" press if he's thrown in jail and ends up in a high publicity court case?
Come on - admit it. For a "newbie" aqua is a pretty cool look and feel. Try convincing the office secretaries that they should be using linux/FreeBSD by showing them gnome or kde and then try convincing them showing them Aqua (if it could be run on linux/bsd.
Even I'd rather run Aqua than gnome/kde. Why? Because it's more purdy and is probably better with regards to ease of use (and shove your "cli rules" where the sun don't shine, and learn to use the right tool for the right job; if this can't be achieved, try putting your computer together using only a sledgehammer next time around).
Hell - if it worked properly I'd probably even pay for it.
Who's bragging? I was explaining why I was acting stupid earlier. I didn't know there was a problem, and when I found out, I changed my stance. How were you expecting me to behave? Like a politician?